Omartian v. Mayor of Springfield

This taxpayers’ suit under G. L. c. 40, § 53, seeks to restrain the defendants from taking steps to carry out the construction of the outer belt highway, referred to in Poremba v. Springfield, ante, 432. A demurrer by the city officials named as defendants asserted that (a) the bill failed to state facts sufficient to justify equitable relief or any relief against any defendant; (b) that various allegations were vague; and (c) that Albano (fn. 1) had been improperly joined as a defendant. The plaintiffs appealed from an interlocutory decree sustaining the demurrer and from a final decree…